Door and hinge construction



4J. FREYBERGAND L. FI WUBBOLDING.

DOOR AND HINGE CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATION FILED Aue.|a, Isls.

1,416,812. Patented May 23, 1922.

o H I 1 "f Fzf /g l 4 @Het fY inns est JQSEPE FREYBERG AND LEO F. YI'UBBOLDING, 0F NEW/"PORT, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNORS TO THE J'. BAUM SAFE @t LOCK COEPNY, 0F CNCINNATI, OHO, A GGRPOBTION DOOR AND HINGE CGNSTRUCTION.

Speeicatioii or" Letters Patent.

iPatented May 23, i922.

Application filed August 18, 19H9. Serial No. 318,29.

To .all 'whom t may concern: Y

Be it known that we7 JosErH Fnnveniie and Liso F. l/VUBBOLDING, citizens, respectively, or" Austria and of the `United States, and residents ot Newport, in the county ot Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful lmp-ro vements in Door and Hinge Constructions7 of which the following is a speciiication.

Uur invention relates to metal safes and the like; and its object is to simplify the conf struction oi1 such devices and inalre them more secure and substantial.

Our invention consists in the combination oil parts and in the details and construction and arrangement of parte` as will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a sectional plan view of part of a safety-deposit cabinet embodying our invention;

Fig. 2 is a partial front elevation of the saine;

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the upper hinge corner or' one of the doors with a single hinge therein;

Fig. d is a similar view oi the saine before the hinge is placed therein;

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view ot' a single hinge;

Figs. 6 and i' are detail perspective views` of meeting hinges; Y

Fig. 8 is' a view similar to Fig. 5 showing a modified single hinge;

Fig. 9 is a partial plan view oj the hinge end of a door with this modiiied hinge fixed therein;

Fig. lO is a vertical longitudinal section on a plane corresponding to the line lO-lO of Fig. 9;

Fig. 1l is a view similar to Figs. 5 and 8 showing another modification of the single hinge; and Y Fig. l2 is a view similar to F 9 showing this other modiiied hinge fixed in a door.

This door and hinge construction is especially designed for safety-*deposit cabinets'and it is in such a construction that it is exemplified herein; although it will he understood that our invention is applicableto the construction of other similar devices where its advantages will be realized.

rlhese safety-deposit cabinets are preferably constructed as disclosed and claimed in our co-pending application, Serial No. 316,229; tiled August 8, 1919. Among other details which are fully shown in said copending application comprises the horizontal partitions or shelves l and the upright partitions 2 which latter do not extend entirely to the fronts oia the shelves 'l but are continuous up and down through slots in said shelves l. These partitions 2 have their lront ends received by jainbs 3 or 3 each 0i. which also is continuous thei'ough slots in the) shelves and set back from the i'ront edges of the shelves so that the metal of the shelves is continuous past the front edges oi'i these jambs.

The doors fl tit snugly in the spaces between the shelves l and the jambs 3; each consisting of a heavy metal plate with its upper and lower edges substantially horizontal and the front or tree edge 5 somewhat beveled inwardly to pass the jamb. The rear or hinged edge has the tongue 6 running fi'om top to bottom of the door ad jacent to the inner or rear surface of the door.

Sonie of the doors swing from left to right as the two doors shown at the left in Figs. i. and 2; but other doors such as the one at the right in these figures swing from right to left. These latter doors are provided in a cabinet which is to have its right side against a wall or the like which would prevent the door ironi swinging entirely open if it were hinged to swing from left to right. It will be understood that other arrangements inay be made; all the doors swinging the saine way ii there is no need ior any of thein swinging otherwise. But where this is provided for there is some ditference both in the jambs and in the hinges because this involves the' bringing of the hinged ends ofr right-hand and left-hand doors adjacent.

llVhere the hinged end oi one door is adjacent to the locking end or the next door as at the left in Figs. l and2, the jamb 3 is inade with a shoulder 7 behind which the tongue 6 enters; and the other side of the jamb 3 has the strike Sagainst which the free end of the other door abuts and heliind which engages the bolt 9 of the lock of that door. Where the hinged ends of two doors are adjacent, as at the right in Figs. l and 2, the jamb 3 has the grooves 7 on opposucli a constructionv site sides to receive the tongues 6 of the two doors. F or these left-handswinging doors a suitable strike is provided which. together with other details, which are fully shown in the aforesaid co-pending application, are

omitted herefrom. Enough of their construction has been described to elucidate the presentinvention. lt is sufficient to say that the jambs 3 and 3', which are not only set back from the front edges of the shelves 1 butwhich are fitted in the correspondingly shaped slots in the shelves7 are very secure against removal forwardly.

. It greatly conduces to the simplicity of construction of this kind of cabinet to hinge the doors in those parts of the shelves 1 immediately in front of the partitions 2 and the jambs 3 or 3. lt is to hinges suitable` for this that our present invention is especially directed.

Each one of the hinges 10 extends out 'from the face of the door and over in front of the jamb 3 where it has its upright pivot pin 11. yThe hinges of doors of succeeding horizontal series are in vertical ahnement so that a single hinge pin 11 extending through a Vhole 12 in the shelf 1 serves for the hinges 10 both above and below the respective shelf as clearly shown in Fig. Q. The hinges 10 are of full depth throughout their length; but when hinged ends of doors are adjacent the hinges 10 are, made with their pivot-pin-receiving parts only half the height of the hinge and meeting hinges are inversely arranged so 'that the two half parts are in vertical alinement with the pin through them. It will be understood that in either case the hinge pin 11 is lixed to only one of the hinges` so as to allow the the slots. rl`he hinge 10 or 10 is made with other one or anyone of the other three doors to swing independently of the door in the hinge of which the pin is fixed.

According to our present invention the upper and lower edges of the door et near its rear or hinged end have slots 13 rut in them extendingdiagonally in from the front of the door to cylindrical sockets 14 wider than its middle part or shank 15 just wide enough to fit tightly in the slot 13 and havingon its end the cylindrical part or head 16 that lfits tightly in the socket 14e. The slot 13 and socket 141 are of just the right depth that when the hinge 10 or 10 is driven into them the upper or lower edge of the hinge will come flush with the top or bottom edge of the door as may be the case. The pivot-pinreceiving part 17 of the hinge 10 of the full height of the hinge or the part 17 of the hinge 10 of half the height is of substantially the same diameter as the cylindrical head 16; but preferably while the shank 15 meets the head 16 radially so as to leave vertical shoulders at each side it meets the part 17 at a tangent. This formation with the erably driven `into the door slots 13 and sockets 14 under very heavy pressure so that they are as substantial as if vformed integral with the door.

The hinges 10 and 10 shown in rigs. 1 to 7 inclusive, are lof solid formation; the preferred method of making them being to roll a bar of the proper cross-section and then cut this bar into short lengths each of which will be one of the hinges after boring the hinge pin opening in the part 17 or in the case o the hinge 10 the cutting away half of the part 17 and providing the hinge pin opening therein.

In the modification shown in Figs. 8 and 9, the hinge 10 is of the same general for mation but is made of a long rectangular sheet of material bent upon itself with its ends meeting to form Vthe rear part of the hinge 16 and suitably `formed intermediate of these ends and the junction of the two folded-together members andthe front side of the hinge-pin-receiving part 17 to constitute the shank 15. In this shank the two members of the sheet lie against each other; but in the head 16 and the part 17" they are bent around so that each has a vertical opening down throughit. The opening of the part 17 receives the hinge pin. The vertical opening in the head 16 receives a pin 18 which is driven tightly therein after this head 16 and shank 15 have been inserted into the socket 14 and slot 13 of thedoor. Driving "this pin 15% tightly herein firmly wedges the two halves of this head 16 against the sides of the socket 14 and thus very tightly fixes the hinge 10 in the door. 1t will be understood that all of the parts are very accurately formed so ythat this wedging eifect causes only an imperceptible movement Yof lthe parts. Also it will be understood that this sheet metal hinge may have half of its pivot-pin-receiving part 17 cut away to correspond` to the meeting hinges shown in Figs. 6 and 7 and thus be used in the same way that they are, as was just fully described.

ln the further modification of Figs. 11 and 12 the hinge 10 isinade of sheet metal as in the example just described; the most important difference. being that the shank 15 not onlyjoins the pivotf-pin-receiving part 17 at a tangent but joins the head 16 in the same way. Such a formation is somewhat simpler and may be found more suited to the making of the hinges of sheet metal since there are not so many bends in the metal.

it has been stated that these hinges are very tightly driven into the doors. But it will be understood that in conjunction with the shelfl and partition structure that has been described and which is the subject matter of the co-pending application mentioned, it is practically impossible to remove the hinges from the doors when the doors are closed; because the upper or lower edges of the hinges are closely abutted by the shelves l above and below, respectively. A loosely fitted hinge could be removed somewhat more readily when the door is open; but a thief would have no need to remove a hinge it the door were open. Also when these or any similar hinges are used in conjunction with the tongue 6 entering behind a part of the jamb 3 or 3 the security of closure does not depend upon the security of the hinge. rllhis permits the hinge to be made of any material that will have the proper strength and wearing qualities to adapt it only as a hinge for the door to swing upon. Usually the door is made of steel and the hinges are brass or bronze.

It will be understood, however, that we are not limited to any certain material or proportions nor even to those details of the partition or shelf construction just alluded to. The hinge as variously exemplified herein or in any other modifications adapting it to somewhat diierent usesv or for use with different other details of construction is suitable for devices other than safetyndeposit constructions and the like. Therefore, while certain constructional details are deemed preferable in connection with our invention, and we have shown and described these rather specifically in elucidating the construction and use of our invention, as is required, we do not wish to be understood as being limited to such precise showing and description, but having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. In a door and hinge construction, a door, and a hinge member embedded in said door near one end thereof and projecting outside the face of said door and over past said end.

2. In a door and hinge construction, a door having a socket in its edge near one end thereof and having a slot leading 'from said socket out through the face of said door and over toward said end, and a hinge member comprising a head fitting in said socket and a shank fitting in said slot and projecting out therefrom and over past said end. j

3. in a door and hinge construction, a door having an opening in its edge near one ot its ends, and a hinge member inserted into said opening through said edge and projecting outside the face of said door and over past said end, the depth of said opening and the height of said hinge member being substantially equal, whereby the top of said hinge member lies substantially flush with said edge of said door.

4. In a door and hinge construction, a door having a socket in its edge near one end thereof and having a slot leading from said socket out through the side of said door and over toward said end, and a hinge member comprising a head fitting in saidsocket and a shank fitting in said slot and projecting out therefrom and over past said end, and comprising a hinge-pin-receiving part at its outer end, said shank joining said head substantially radially thereto but joining said hinge-pin-receiving part substantially at a tangent thereto for the purposes set forth.

JGSEPH FREYBERG. LEO E WUBBOLDING. l/Vitnesses JAMES N. RAMsnY, J. SAGMnIs'rnR. 

